Word: major
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its third concert in Sanders Theatre this evening. The program will consist of a suite in A miner, opus 42, by E. A. Mac Dowell; concerto for pianoforte in G major by Rubenstein; and Beethaven's symphony No. 7. The pianist will be Mme. Helen Hopekirk...
...Major McKinley spoke at Tremont Temple last evening. About 150 Harvard men were present...
...Chicago University will be conducted on a new plan by President Harper. Four quarters each composed of two terms of six weeks, cover the entire year, and the student chooses any two terms for vacation. Courses extend through one quarter, and are classified as major, with a minimum of ten hours work a week, or minor, with a minimum of four...
...course of study, each term of twelve weeks will be divided into two periods of six weeks each. Each student will pursue but two studies at a time, a major study and a minor study, and he will devote all of his time for at least six weeks, and it may be longer, to these two studies. Other studies will be taken up in succession, two by two, so that instead of diffusing his mental energies among six or eight simultaneous studies, as is the case under the present system of teaching at colleges and Universities, he will concentrate...
...fifth above (or dominant) suffices. To these two chords, together with that on the subdominant or fifth below the tonic the harmony of simpler compositions is in general confined. That one of the old church tonalities (in C) which could, with slight changes from the Pythagorean model, give major triads on all these three notes met best of all the tonic demand upon harmonic structure and became the Standard Major mode of modern times. The modern minor is a development from two other church tonalities, those...